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Global Perspectives on Higher Education
Philip G. Altbach
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Description for Global Perspectives on Higher Education
Paperback. Provocative and wide-ranging, Global Perspectives on Higher Education considers how the international exchange of ideas, students, and scholars has fundamentally altered higher education. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFFS; JNM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. .
Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider access and accompanying challenges of quality, the other toward exclusive, world class research-oriented universities. In Global Perspectives on Higher Education, renowned higher education scholar Philip G. Altbach offers a wide-ranging perspective on the implications of these key forces and explores how they influence academe everywhere. Altbach begins with a discussion of the ... Read more
Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider access and accompanying challenges of quality, the other toward exclusive, world class research-oriented universities. In Global Perspectives on Higher Education, renowned higher education scholar Philip G. Altbach offers a wide-ranging perspective on the implications of these key forces and explores how they influence academe everywhere. Altbach begins with a discussion of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
517g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419268
SKU
V9781421419268
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About Philip G. Altbach
Philip G. Altbach is a research professor and the founding director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. He is the coeditor of American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century and In Defense of American Higher Education.
Reviews for Global Perspectives on Higher Education
... the issues treated in this book are wide reaching and cause for thought for higher educators.
Canadian Journal of Higher Education
... comprehensive account of contemporary post secondary education worldwide. It marshals complex and interrelated data by themes that introduce, describe and compare global higher education with remarkably little repetition in a way unlikely to be surpassed ... Read more
Canadian Journal of Higher Education
... comprehensive account of contemporary post secondary education worldwide. It marshals complex and interrelated data by themes that introduce, describe and compare global higher education with remarkably little repetition in a way unlikely to be surpassed ... Read more